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Getting Your Head In The Game

June 8, 2011 by

Making a physical transformation is just as much about where your head is at as where your body is at. In fact the first step to making a transformation is never your workout or your diet, it’s your mind. And that is what Greg Rojem realized had to happen for him to make the transformation he did.

 

Adonis Index Transformation Greg Rojem

Greg Rojem 6th Place Adonis Index Transformation

Adonis Index Transformation Greg 6th Place

Greg dropped 4.5 inches off his waist

Adonis Index Contest 6th Place

...and dropped 19lbs

In todays podcast we talk about the mental barriers Greg had to overcome to get his mind ready for what it takes to transform his body.

Belief has to precede action. You gotta believe you can make a change before you  can actually make that change. From there it’s a matter of being consistent and never straying from your goal.

Believe it will happen, then take the steps to make it happen.

John

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The Limits of Muscle Growth

June 6, 2011 by

There are multiple factors that contribute to your ability to grow larger muscles.

Factors that can be rate limiting are:

Even the Hulk stops growing at some point.

1. Nutrition – Severe malnutrition or starvation will limit your ability to grow your  muscles to their full potential.

2. Exercise – Progressive resistance training will stimulate muscle growth beyond what your natural level of muscle mass is without working out.

3. Muscle Tissue – Your genetically predetermined muscle mass.

In most cases nutrition and exercise will not limit your ability to grow. Your genetically predetermined muscle size and tissue architecture will be the rate limiting step.

Even bodybuilders who use copious amounts of drugs eventually revert back to their predetermined genetic muscle mass limit once they stop using drugs.

It appears that the body has a very tight control on muscle mass and this would lead us to believe that it’s happening for a very good reason.

It might be that going above and beyond this limit is not a good thing for your body overall.

We propose that the golden Adonis Index ratio is likely a close estimation of what the upper limit of potential muscle mass is on any given person.

Exceeding this limit is definitely possible with drugs, but considering the strict control the body has on this limit, it might not be the healthiest thing to do.

In today’s uncensored podcast, we discuss this limits of muscle growth and why it is likely set the way it is.

John

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Getting Ripped and Staying Ripped

June 1, 2011 by

Getting in amazing shape is the first step of the journey, the second and much longer step is staying in that shape. And there is no better person to talk to about this critical second step than Mark Levy. Mark won the senior open category of the Adonis Index contest. His pictures speak for themselves.

 

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Adonis Index Senior Open Winner Mark Levy

Adonis_Index_Open_Winner_Mark_Levy

Mark is Shredded!

 

We talk of the evolution of working out being a major part of our identity to simply becoming a tool that simply gets you a result that you want.

There is a fine line between defining yourself by your workout and simply using it as a means to an end.

This doesn’t mean that you blow off your workouts and don’t take them seriously…but rather it means we all need to learn to categorize where our workouts and diet planning fit into our lives.

The point is making a lifestyle change and give your workout and diet it’s fair place in your life without letting it consume your life and your identity.

Maintaining a great physique is an active step just like transforming your physique. Learning how to live in maintenance is where we all strive to get and Mark has many great insights on his life in maintenance.

Listen up because this is the goal we’re all shooting for.

John

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